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Against Pure Purity – Part 2
This is Part 2 of an essay I gave as a talk at a philosophy & religion conference in Kolkata, India, August 2002. I sought to apply new ideas about Indian novelist Raja Rao to multicultural and political issues then … Continue reading
Amartya Sen: Fear, Fact, and Freedom
On September 22, 1994, the venerable New York Review of Books published economist Amartya Sen’s essay “Population: Delusion and Reality,” his response to the long history of worries about over-population, from Malthus to Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb) to Garrett … Continue reading
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